[thelist] help me understand global variable in PHP

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

I'm having some trouble getting a variable value in my page. My code
uses some global variables which I don't really understand. Here is
what happens:
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First, the script declares the variable:
$prodname = "";
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Then, I am parsing XML, which uses 3 user defined functions called
by:
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xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
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(its event driven, every time the parser hits a handler, it runs the
appropriate function, same for character data)

Within the three functions I have the following line:
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global $prodname (with some other vars)
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Then, at the end of the endElement() function (the last one to deal
with the data) the variable is again set to blank
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$prodname = "";
} (end function)
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Now, my problem is - I want to pass along $prodname to the next page
I am going to via the query string. So I have something like
/path.php?p=$prodname. This variable however is always empty. This
line of code is OUTSIDE the functions of course.

Now, I assume this is part of the problem, $prodname gets set to
blank so there is no value. So I tried, inside the function doing

$prod = $prodname;

so it wouldn't get reset..this still doesn't work.

You can see the full page code at:
www.silverheaven.com/reg/code.html.

If you look at the code, I am having a similar problem with
$message..

Tom



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